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Lost Ark Revealed 3 New Classes and Closed Beta 2 Changes

Smilegate has teased in last year that 3 new classes: Summoner, Arcana and Destroyer will be available at the second closed beta of Lost Ark but they never revealed anything about the new classes (except for Summoner). Today the developer finally officially unveiled the 3 new classes, along with the changes in the upcoming closed beta 2 in Korea.

Destroyer
Destroyer is an embodiment of destruction and a juggernaut that wields a Gravity Hammer. He can crush, pull, and blow away the enemies. Destroyer is pretty slow in attack speed but his every blow can deal huge damage.

Arcana
Arcana masters a variety of short and middle range spells and she can adapt to all types of battle situations. There's an interesting feature about Acana, that she can draw a card from her deck at the critical moment but even she won't know what it would be.

Summoner
Smilegate let us see how Summoner fights 2 years ago and they should have changed it a little bit now. The core gameplay remains the same, and she controls different creatures or spirits to fight. Summoner can summon DPS, tank, or supporter to fight alongside her but first she has to collect the ancient spirits during the adventure. Summoner herself is like Elementalist who has the flexibility to deal with different situations.

A lot has been changed and improved since CBT1. First the character animations of movement and attacks have been improved and become more natural. Smilegate stresses that the hit and blow feel much better. On the other hand, the monsters' death animations are now more diversified according to the attacks and abilities players use.

Existing classes get rebalanced and each one now feels more unique. For instance Warlord can now rely more on the high defense and excellent survivability, with the changes in the abilities. Bard is now more of a supporter than a magic DPS with some abilities being changed.

Bard's supportive spell
The Tripod system (talent and skill system) for each class has received some changes in the purpose to allow players to customize their character's combat style with more options.

Warlord defense stanceWarlord's guardian skill
Then the quest system is improved. There were feedback saying the side quests were boring compared with the main quests, while some players complained some quests took too much time, and some people wanted more intriguing quests. So some side quests have been removed for CBT2 and a special episode has been added to the main adventure quest in each region. Last but not least, many quests are modified and now fit into the entire game more naturally.

Also the UI and many convenience features are improved. There are many small things get fixed or enhanced.

However, Smilegate hasn't announced when the second closed beta will start.